I’m not going to go into this but had to post.
This is the kind of stuff I aspire to write.
The fact that it wins an award too is the icing on the gerbil-themed cake.
Story here
That prize-winning quote:
“For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss – a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.”
Could be worse, I suppose. Could be ferrets…
Boadicea's Chariot 